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Who? The Spartacist League. · A communist group set up by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Leibknecht.…read more

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Why? They did not trust the new government. The Spartacists thought that Ebert would not improve the lives of working people. They wanted a full scale Communist revolution like the Russian Revolution of 1917.…read more

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What? In January 1919 workers were protesting throughout Germany. The Spartacists tried to turn this into a revolution. In Berlin they took over the government's newspaper and telegraph headquarters. They hoped protestors would join them and take over other buildings, but this did not happen.…read more

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What? The government ordered the army to stop the uprising. The army was helped by units of the Freikorps. These units were made up of ex-soldiers who were anti-Communist. In the fighting that followed over 100 workers were killed.…read more